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K 08971 (P397836)
CANONICAL > Technical > Ritual texts, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | K 08971 |
|---|---|
| ID | P397836 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | CANONICAL > Technical > Ritual texts |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
Machine English (draft)
Machine draft. Machine English from montycrypto/atf-to-english (atf-en-best-v2, 2026-10-05), generated line by line from the source transliteration (not reproduced here). It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|
| col 2' 4' | You... male and female... |
| col 2' 3' | like a man and a woman... |
| col 2' 7' | You set up the 'increment' before him.... |
| col 2' 6' | The sick man in a house... the throne |
| col 1' 1' | ... his(?) |
| col 2' 13' | If you wish, let this be your wife. |
| col 2' 11' | You, whatever evil, anything unfavorable, |
| col 2' 9' | in the head of Sikilla, not, |
| col 2' 12' | 'If your wife is seized and his death is favourable, |
| col 2' 8' | You recite them in... |
| col 2' 10' | You place a censer of juniper in front of them |
| col 1' 2' | ... |
| col 1' 3' | ... |
| col 2' 5' | The slave who is a strong member of the army of the Sikilla... woman |
| col 2' 2' | ... adjoining the male and female laborers. |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich · MIT (eBL Zenodo dataset); platform terms unverified · electronic Babylonian Library (eBL), LMU Munich, https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ ; Zenodo dataset (MIT)
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